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A man must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere.
Charles Kettering
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Charles Kettering
Age: 82 †
Born: 1876
Born: August 29
Died: 1958
Died: November 25
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Charles Franklin Kettering
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The Wright brothers flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
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A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true.
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What I believe is that, by proper effort, we make the future almost anything we want to make it.
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The whole fun of living is trying to make something better.
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you must take the problem as it is, and let it be what it wants to be.
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Modern psychology teaches that experience is not merely the best teacher, but the only possible teacher.. There is no war between theory and practice. The most valuable experience demands both, and the theory should supplement the practice and not precede it.
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If a fellow wants to be nobody in the business world, let him neglect sending the mailman to somebody on his behalf.
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Don't bring anything to me but trouble.
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Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.
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Education is man's going forward from cocksure ignorance to thoughtful uncertainty.Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
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One fails forward toward success.
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The opportunities in this world are as great as we have the imagination to see them... but we never get that view from the bottom of the nest.
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It is the 'follow through' that makes the great difference between ultimate success and failure, because it is so easy to stop.
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Research means that you don't know, but are willing to find out.
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The person who doesn't know something can't be done will often find a way to go ahead and do it.
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We work day after day, not to finish things but to make the future better ... because we will spend the rest of our lives there.
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If I have had any success, it's due to luck, but I notice the harder I work, the luckier I get.
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Thinking is one thing no one has ever been able to tax.
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